There was also a sharp drop in homicides at housing projects — five this year compared to 13 last year, a 62% decrease, police said.

But crime in the subways is up 6%, mostly due to a double-digit surge in felony assaults.

Dermot Shea, the chief of Crime Control Strategies, said the mostly good news is no surprise to police brass.

“Last year, we said that we believed crime could go lower,” Shea said at press conference on Randalls Island. “We are now witnessing the effects of our sustained focus on the recividist population within New York City as our strategies take hold.”

Police have been focusing mostly on the repeat offenders who drive a majority of the violent crime in the city.

At the same time, the NYPD remade its approach to New Yorkers, working off a neighborhood policing model designed to improve relationships and lean on residents for the information and cooperation police need to solve crimes.

But Police Commissioner James O’Neill, on the heels of Tuesday’s terror attack in Russia, said the concern remains that proposed budget cuts by President Trump could dramatically cut the federal funds the NYPD relies onto prevent terrorism in the city.